What's In A Name? The Worst Movie Titles Ever
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Can a bad title kill a movie's chances at the box office?
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Exactly. You get to a certain level in the business where you don't want anyone to talk to you at all. And there are some people who are notoriously difficult to get hold of. So Christopher Nolan, for example, is famously almost completely outspoken. It doesn't even have a mobile phone. I mean, you literally cannot get hold of Christopher Nolan. He said, of course he does. He's got a sneaky little mobile, has he?
Yeah.
He's on WhatsApp groups, but he doesn't want you to know that. Should I tell you who's easy to get hold of? Who? Octopus Energy. Yes. So Octopus Energy, if, you know the score when one of your service providers writes to you you've got a question for them or you're disputing something you reply and it immediately says you cannot reply to this email with Octopus Energy any email they send you you can reply to and it will go to your dedicated team which to me feels like one of the greatest advancements I've heard of the last 30 or 40 years. You can actually reply to people.
Would it be possible to contact the people I'm paying my money to? Well, with Octopus email, you can reply directly to your own dedicated small team.
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Hello and welcome to this episode of the Restors Entertainment questions and answers edition. I'm Marina Hyde.
And I'm Richard Osman. And for once, we're not talking to Steven Spielberg or Tom Hanks.
A major celebrity.
We are talking to each other. Just a little old ass. Well, I've missed it. I've missed it as well. It's quite nice to be back, isn't it?
Yes, it is very nice to react. Are you going to hit me with a question?
Yeah, I certainly am. And it is from Jane Burrows. Thank you, Jane. She says, I've seen a few social media videos in recent past showing table reads from Shrinking to Game of Thrones. Can you tell me what's their purpose? Who are they for? When do they happen in the timeline of a production? And would actors deliver their lines in character? Jane's question goes on for some while longer. There's lots of smaller questions inside it. But I think we can talk about the world of table reads now.
She ends saying that they do look super awkward. Well, they look awkward because obviously that is not the finished product. And in many cases, that's the first, I'll get on to this, the first time those actors are seeing the scripts. I think particularly with stuff like Game of Thrones, I know which one you're talking about. You're talking about the final episodes where the actors are discovering effectively in real time what happens to their characters and who wins the Game of Thrones. And it can be very emotional. You can see people suddenly thinking, oh my gosh, hang on, I'm dead. Okay. It's been a decade of their life or something. But they are such a key part of the process.
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